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A potent mix of outstanding elements grace Shyfrin Alliance’s ‘The Cage’, the third single to release off their upcoming debut album Upside Down Blues. Electronic, dark, anthemic, and jazzy, ‘The Cage’ is a fascinating song.

Based in London, Shyfrin Alliance are forefronted by the outstanding vocal and musical character of Eduard Shyfrin. With his dark and brooding vibrato, Shyfrin is in full control of the pace and of the mood of the song. It suits Shyfrin that the instrumental palette, the mix, and the composition all totally revolve around the gravity of his deep croons.

‘The Cage’ features a deliciously ominous composition, laden with rich and usual jazz voicings and unfamiliar chord movements, injecting the sound with lush dissonance and an encompassing sense of drama. Moreover, the mix is fairly cavernous, with the dense reverb on the church organ arpeggios and arresting string arrangement being in the forefront of the instrumental palette, and the mix, the song sounds lively and breathy, lending even more help to Shyfrin’s off-kilter performance and stirring darkness.

‘The Cage’ is a totally outstanding listen. Lush with detail and brimming with musical character, Eduard Shyfrin’s fascinating persona at the gravitational center of it all, it is a mystifying listen.